{"id":326868,"date":"2026-03-03T15:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/326868\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T15:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:40:07","slug":"iran-latest-uk-considers-moving-warship-us-embassy-hit-and-trump-attacks-starmer-again-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/326868\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran latest: UK considers moving warship, US embassy hit and Trump attacks Starmer again | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/author\/mickey-carroll-1047\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mickey Carroll<\/a>, science and technology reporter<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Cybersecurity firms are warning of &#8220;spikes&#8221; in Iranian state-linked criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Their warnings come after the government&#8217;s cyber intelligence centre alerted companies to &#8220;a heightened risk&#8221; of cyber attacks after strikes on Iran.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A threat intelligence team at Nozomi Networks Labs reported seeing spikes in the activity of three major groups linked to the country, with manufacturing and transportation sectors most targeted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">What worries the analysts at Nozomi most, however, is the type of activity they&#8217;re seeing.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">They say cybercriminals aren&#8217;t attacking &#8211; yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Instead, they&#8217;re attempting to gain entry to systems by &#8220;quietly mapping environments and validating access&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;They haven&#8217;t moved to destructive action yet,&#8221; a Nozomi spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Another cybersecurity expert warned that this growing cyberthreat, alongside the physical threats of war, was &#8220;sadly a glimpse into what modern warfare actually looks like&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Jake Moore, global cybersecurity advisor at ESET, said: &#8220;Alongside the physical strikes, there are strong indications of widespread digital disruption aimed at degrading communications and increasing confusion at critical moments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Denial of service attacks (DDoS) can kill communication which is vital at times such as these.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;This is a warning sign of the future and it\u2019s time businesses and critical infrastructure operators in the UK treat this as a credible threat signal to review their exposure now before a potential incident lands.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Yesterday, the UK&#8217;s National Cyber Security Centre told organisations to prepare for attacks by reading up on different types of attacks and signing up for its early warning service.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Organisations with offices or supply chains in the region should adjust their &#8220;cyber security posture&#8221;, potentially increase monitoring and review any external vulnerabilities, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Mickey Carroll, science and technology reporter Cybersecurity firms are warning of &#8220;spikes&#8221; in Iranian state-linked criminal activity.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-326868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}